top 20 hacker news stories for 2015-08-16

I made a cell phone [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlRa-iH7PGw

11 years ago

487 upvotes – 79 comments

Understand 1,700 Mechanical Linkages with These Helpful Animations

http://makezine.com/2015/04/20/understand-1700-mechanical-linkages-helpful-animations/

11 years ago

315 upvotes – 65 comments

OS X 10.10.5 kernel local privilege escalation

https://github.com/kpwn/tpwn

11 years ago

★ 394 Objective-C
278 upvotes – 134 comments

The network is hostile

http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2015/08/the-network-is-hostile.html

11 years ago

276 upvotes – 93 comments

GPS Trackers in Fake Elephant Tusks Reveal Ivory Smuggling Route

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2015/08/12/431908397/gps-trackers-in-fake-elephant-tusks-reveal-ivory-smuggling-route

11 years ago

224 upvotes – 66 comments

Beware of sudo on OS X

http://blog.rongarret.info/2015/08/psa-beware-of-sudo-on-os-x.html

11 years ago

223 upvotes – 92 comments

Winning 1kb intro released at Assembly 2015

http://www.p01.org/releases/BLCK4777/BLCK4777_safe.htm

11 years ago

222 upvotes – 64 comments

CPAN is 20

http://blogs.perl.org/users/neilb/2015/08/cpan-is-20.html

11 years ago

183 upvotes – 37 comments

Inside Amazon

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2015/08/16/Working-at-Amazon

11 years ago

176 upvotes – 98 comments

Prepping for the Transfer of 25,000 Manuals

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4695

11 years ago

148 upvotes – 48 comments

Rust web framework, Iron

http://ironframework.io/

11 years ago

137 upvotes – 111 comments

Why is Bitcoin forking?

https://medium.com/@octskyward/why-is-bitcoin-forking-d647312d22c1?1

11 years ago

134 upvotes – 81 comments

Developers who can build things from scratch

http://www.aaronstannard.com/engineers-from-scratch/

11 years ago

130 upvotes – 43 comments

A 61-year-old hotel that has never had a guest

http://fortune.com/2015/08/11/hotel-italy-no-guests/?xid=soc_socialflow_facebook_FORTUNE

11 years ago

128 upvotes – 45 comments

Bash Pitfalls

http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashPitfalls

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 38 comments

The Interactive Way to Go

http://playgo.to/iwtg/en/

11 years ago

114 upvotes – 15 comments

Terminal Window Manager for OS X

https://github.com/apaszke/termtile

11 years ago

★ 1.2k AppleScript MIT
106 upvotes – 74 comments

Octopus genome holds clues to uncanny intelligence

http://www.nature.com/news/octopus-genome-holds-clues-to-uncanny-intelligence-1.18177

11 years ago

102 upvotes – 33 comments

Ask HN: Why did literate programming not catch on?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10069748

11 years ago

101 upvotes – 98 comments

Tic Tac Toe: Understanding The Minimax Algorithm (2013)

http://neverstopbuilding.com/minimax

11 years ago

94 upvotes – 13 comments
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